Banned from Buffet

[glossyp]

This story caught my eye as it is one of my pet peeves to watch people waste food needlessly. Also, I couldn't believe the price of $5.95 for all-you-can-eat Chinese food - of course it is the Midwest where prices are always low.
Food wasters banned (http://www.local6.com/news/9164772/detail.html).

[helen]

The article didn't say if all four of them was wasting food or just the kids. However according to the restaurant, this family wasting the food was on-going thing as opposed to just happening once.

$5.95 per person does sound like (a) it might be the lunch time price or (b) not much of a selection.

[Menehune Man]

Long ago... when my first wife was pregnant with our daughter, we would go to the Sizzler's in Corta Madiera California. We would get 2 inexpensive meals and one salad bar. Of course both of us ate from the one bar plate. Trying to be inconspicuous. Well after a few times of this we were banned. Ooops. :o

[craigwatanabe]

when I take my kids to a buffet, I always make their plate and make sure they eat everything. Problem with buffets is that kids will typically never eat enough to make going to a buffet a bargain.

[alohabear]

I remember seeing this sign at a Buffet in Kona :
"Take all you can eat, Eat all you take!" :eek:

[Pomai]

Eh.. no tell on me eh? I da' guy at Pagoda and Willows whacking all da raw fish, shrimp tempura and Prime Rib. Das' it!

Forget da' rice. Forget da' oddah stuffs. Gotta' save room for da' GOLD! :D

[craigwatanabe]

Oh my secret's out!!! I eat the poke and shrimp first then the dessert then hit the prime rib.

[tutusue]

when I take my kids to a buffet, I always make their plate and make sure they eat everything. Problem with buffets is that kids will typically never eat enough to make going to a buffet a bargain.
That's my problem with buffets in general. I can never eat enough to justify the price...unless there's a big platter full of sashimi! :D

[lurkah]

That's my problem with buffets in general. I can never eat enough to justify the price...unless there's a big platter full of sashimi! :D
And also my favorite, CRAB! :D I swear the food servers at my favorite Chinese food buffet slow down in repleneshing the crab pot whenever they see me come through the door. :mad:

[Miulang]

And also my favorite, CRAB! :D I swear the food servers at my favorite Chinese food buffet slow down in repleneshing the crab pot whenever they see me come through the door. :mad:
And when you go to Todai, don't they do the same thing there to you, too? :eek: Actually, Lurkah, whenever I go to Todai, I don't eat the crab...so you can have my share! ;) (too much work for me) when get maguro just ready to pop in da mouth!

Miulang

[Pomai]

Anybody ever see that heavy-set stand up comic who told about his own experience dining at a Chinese buffet restaurant?

Speaking in a heavy Chinese accent...
"Yu go now! Yu hee'ah fo' ow' wah! FO' OW' WAH! YU GO NOW! Now yu' look, we get'uh nuh'ting moa-fo' odda' custumah!.. cheee how wah lung me wahh dung li mao".

I know.. not really funny reading that. You gotta' watch it on TV for the full effect. Was hilarious though.

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Alohabear wrote:
"Take all you can eat, Eat all you take!"

That is good! That should be a required sign on EVERY dining table: home, restaurant, buffet line or otherwise.

One of my biggest peeves is wasting food. It's tragic that the food service industry has to throw away leftovers instead of giving it to employees because of shrinkage and/or liability concerns.

[Erika Engle]

Take what you want, but eat all you take is one of my admonitions to my chilluns as well, on the rare occasions that we go to buffets.

We didn't eat out a lot when I was growing up, but when we did, my mother always said, "Eat the expensive stuff first." In other words, don't fill up on the bread and butter to the point that you can't eat the expensive entree and wind up wasting food.

A few months back, the kids and I were treated to the Pac. Beach seafood buffet dinner -- Ho was SOME GOOD, boy! Oysters, sashimi, crab (the latter of which I didn't take, in deference to my twin boys who feel, for some odd reason, that crabs, lobsters, shrimp and crustaceans in general should be PETS, not plate fodder).

Craig - mine, too, were at one time too young to justify the buffet expense, (even at Pizza Hut at lunch), but now that they're bigger (with appetites to match), it's really worth it. When it's in the budget, that is.

[kahunatic]

Oh my secret's out!!! I eat the poke and shrimp first then the dessert then hit the prime rib.

LOL!! That's funny. I was visiting Utah one time to visit my cousins and they took me to a place called the Chuck A Rama (buffet), in downtown Salt Lake City. We must have consumed pounds and pounds of food. A fun time was had by all. I'm not sure what the manager thought of us after we left, but we left a very good tip for the waitress assigned to our table. We (Polynesians) know how to have a great time at buffet restaurants.....LOL!!

[lurkah]

Actually, Lurkah, whenever I go to Todai, I don't eat the crab...so you can have my share! ;) (too much work for me)
Well, you pushed (okay, maybe nudged) me over the edge last night to where we ended up going to that favorite Chinese food buffet place where I gorged myself on crab legs once again — and I ate all that I took. By the way, there's a secret technique for eating those crab legs. :D

[scrivener]

By the way, there's a secret technique for eating those crab legs.
"Don't come up for air?"

[lurkah]

"Don't come up for air?"
"Talented fingers." http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b133/lurkah/graphics/smileyeyebrows.gif

[zztype]

...crab (the latter of which I didn't take, in deference to my twin boys who feel, for some odd reason, that crabs, lobsters, shrimp and crustaceans in general should be PETS, not plate fodder).
Oh. My. Gawd.

My kid has the same affliction! He used to LOVE lobster in butter until he got a plush lobster toy. Now he sleeps with the lobster and cringes at Red Lobster commercials!

[Da Rolling Eye]

A few months back, the kids and I were treated to the Pac. Beach seafood buffet dinner -- Ho was SOME GOOD, boy! Oysters, sashimi, crab (the latter of which I didn't take, in deference to my twin boys who feel, for some odd reason, that crabs, lobsters, shrimp and crustaceans in general should be PETS, not plate fodder).

Craig - mine, too, were at one time too young to justify the buffet expense, (even at Pizza Hut at lunch), but now that they're bigger (with appetites to match), it's really worth it. When it's in the budget, that is.
Erika! Get rid of the Little Mermaid DVD. <LOL>

Our Mel still gets 1/2 price, but it's still not worth it as she can't eat a 1/2 price worth of food at most buffet places. Makino's, Todai and Willows, kinda makes us feel like we got ripped off as kid's 1/2 price is over $10. Kinda irritating when your kid eats only miso soup and rice and one crab leg. :mad:
Btw, the wait help at Makino's used to keep an eye on how much kids eat and would charge accordingly. We didn't have to pay for Mel's meals when they first opened. Now they think any kid over 5 is going to empty the buffet line. :confused:

Now my older boy, we take him along for the reckoning. He'll eat only the most expensive entrees and enough of it to make up for the "overpricing" of his sister's meal. <LOL>

[Erika Engle]

Oh. My. Gawd.

My kid has the same affliction! He used to LOVE lobster in butter until he got a plush lobster toy. Now he sleeps with the lobster and cringes at Red Lobster commercials!

Bizarre, yeah? I think a field trip my boys went on to a marsh, where they had fun catching/releasing freshwater prawns and perhaps other things, influenced their attitudes.

I mean, this ain't never gonna be a vegan household, so that's not the issue.

We once went to a party catered by Clambake Hawaii ... and just the aroma of the steaming crablegs, etc., made one of them nauseous.

[Erika Engle]

[Erika! Get rid of the Little Mermaid DVD. <LOL>]

Too funny, Eye!

[cezanne]

Yeh I remember that comic. "You too beeg! Eat vejtahbo!" (vegetables) :D
Anybody ever see that heavy-set stand up comic who told about his own experience dining at a Chinese buffet restaurant?

Speaking in a heavy Chinese accent...
"Yu go now! Yu hee'ah fo' ow' wah! FO' OW' WAH! YU GO NOW! Now yu' look, we get'uh nuh'ting moa-fo' odda' custumah!.. cheee how wah lung me wahh dung li mao".

I know.. not really funny reading that. You gotta' watch it on TV for the full effect. Was hilarious though.

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Alohabear wrote:
"Take all you can eat, Eat all you take!"

That is good! That should be a required sign on EVERY dining table: home, restaurant, buffet line or otherwise.

One of my biggest peeves is wasting food. It's tragic that the food service industry has to throw away leftovers instead of giving it to employees because of shrinkage and/or liability concerns.

[oggboy]

All you can eat??? No problem, some funny was cause my kid`s when take me out for dinner on my b-day at the Maui Beach Hotel for all you can eat king crab legs, and prime-rib buffet.... After all the grinds with the king crab`s.... The cook`s had to bus out snow crab, cause we wen wipe out the king crab.... NO WORRY, NO WASTE, NO WASTE TIME!!!!!!!
OGGBOY :D :D

[lurkah]

After all the grinds with the king crab`s.... The cook`s had to bus out snow crab, cause we wen wipe out the king crab....
Maybe that was the cook's Plan B that they had in place just for folks like you (and me) so that they can keep their king crab losses to a minimum. :D